A Company Wants to Determine Its Reorder Point (R)

question 28

Multiple Choice

A company wants to determine its reorder point (R) . Demand is variable and the company wants to build a safety stock into R. If the average daily demand is 12, the lead time is 5 days, the desired z value is 1.96, and the standard deviation of usage during lead time is 3, which of the following is the desired value of R?

• A) About 6
• B) About 16
• C) About 61
• D) About 66
• E) About 79

---

Definitions:

Price Policy

The strategy or practices adopted by a company, organization, or government to set the selling price of products or services.

Perfectly Elastic Demand

Product or resource demand in which quantity demanded can be of any amount at a particular product or resource price; graphs as a horizontal demand curve.

Herfindahl Index

A measure of market concentration used to gauge the level of competition within an industry by calculating the sum of the squares of the market shares of each firm.

Concentration Ratio

A measure used in economics to assess the degree of market concentration, indicating the market share held by the largest firms in the industry.